“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.- Atticus Finch

“People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.”

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corn cribs they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.

With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.

You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat. Try fightin' with your head for a change -Atticus Finch

Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin

There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father's one of them